Collaboration for FA Health

“This study will benefit those who are just starting out and those who will be here long after I retire. Thanks again.” Flight Attendant Health Study Participant

We are a consortium of researchers from Dartmouth College, Harvard University School of Public Health, and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, who are dedicated to improving our understanding of flight attendant health. Our goal is to align resources to bring you information about health, current research, and the opportunity to participate in ongoing studies. Through our collaboration, we hope to provide retired, current, and future flight attendants a gateway to understand occupationally related health conditions.

These studies both gather vital Flight Attendant health information and also study practices that may improve Flight Attendant health and well-being. We can only do this with your participation.

Flight Attendant Health Study collaborators meet at the FAMRI Scientific Symposium in Miami, FL. Left to right: Eileen McNeely and Sara Gale from the Harvard School of Public Health, Peter Payne and Mardi Crane-Godreau from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, and Anthony Brown from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. FAMRI is the primary sponsor of the Flight Attendant Health Study Collaboration

Voices from the Harvard Flight Attendant Health Study Participants:

“THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO DO THIS STUDY! YES, I was shouting!”

“This is definitely a profession that takes a toll on our health.”

“This study will benefit those who are just starting out and those who will be here long after I retire. Thanks again.”

“Wonderful research! More research is definitely needed about the negative health conditions related to . . . the work requirements of being a flight attendant!”

Alaska Airline flight attendants reported health complaints related to new uniforms rolled out in 2011 (1). By 2014, approximately 800 flight attendants had complained about how the new uniforms were negatively impacting their health, which led to Alaska Airlines recalling the uniforms, though without acknowledging harm. The research recently published by Dr. McNeely and colleagues suggests these health symptoms could be associated with the uniforms, based on data from before, during, and after use of the uniforms among Alaska Airlines flight attendants.

American flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer, including breast, uterine, gastrointestinal, thyroid, and cervical cancers, when compared with the general public, according to new research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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